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June15, 1943. M. LIGHTER 2,321,607

CALENDAR Filed March 14, 1941 FOR FEB. PASS SHEET THROUGH SLOT AND TURN CALENDAR MARCH 8? FOR APRIL PASS SHEET THROUGH SLOT AND TURN CALENDAR.

Patented June 15, 1943 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE CALENDAR Malvin Lichter, New Rochelle, N'. Y.

Application March 14, 1941, Serial No. 383,312

(Cl. iii-119) 1 Claim.

on a card in the form of a hanger over which the sheets might be rotated. The hanger, in, this case, was necessarily much smaller than any of the calendar sheets and was of greatly restricted width with respect to the width of the sheets.

An object of the present invention is the provision in a hanging calendar pad having a plurality of reversible pages of means permitting the rotation of the pages to present a selected face of a selected page to View Without coveringup the card from which the calendar is hung.

There are many other objects of my invention which in part Will become apparent, and where not apparent, will be pointed out, in connection with the following specification and drawing, in which:

Figure l is a plan view of a pairof blanks which may be used to form the calendar structure of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a View in perspective of. the form.

of calendar structure utilizing the blanks of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a blank for use in the formation of the calendar structure of Figure 5.

Figure 5 is a View in perspective of a modification of a hanging calendar pad.

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional View taken along line E5 of Figure 5.

Referring now to Figures 1, 2 and 3, there is here shown a calendar pad having a support card iii upon which any advertising matter or other indicia may be placed, the said card having a suitable perforated or grommeted hole 2| by which the same may be hung on the wall.

The bottom of the card is provided adjacent the lower horizontal edge thereof, with a slot 72 through which the calendar sheets may be passed in order to reverse the same in a manner hereinafter to be described.

A calendar pad 38 as shown in Figures 2 and 3 may be attached in any suitable manner, as

hereinafter more specifically described, at the bottom of the card H3 beneath the slot 12. When the pad 36 of calendar sheets is secured to the card it, it is secured in such manner that all of the calendar sheets may then be passed through the slot 12 in the manner shown in Figure 2 (and especially in Figures 5 and 6), so that the same may hang down oneither side.

When it is desired now to present one of the interior sheets of the pad toview, it is simply necessary to pass the ends of the sheets above said interior sheet through the slot 1-2' and pull. the said sheets through the slot so that they hang down on the rear side of the card. In this manner, by passing each of the sheets successively through the slot, each corresponding face of each sheet is visiblefrom one side of the pad. By reversing, the calendar pad opposite sides of each of the sheets may be presented to view. In this manner, the pages of the calendar may be turned and each of the sheetsreversed so that six pages may be used for a calendar showing."

twelve months on twelve sides of the sheets; and also the pages may be turned and the: calendar reversed so that the months mayxbersuccessively brought into view without covering: up any portion of the card it which bears the advertising matter, pictures. or other indi'cia.

Where it is desired to use: twelve separate sheets for the twelve separate months, then the reverse side of each sheet. may carry any suitable matter such. as recipes or directions? of' various kinds. In such case, the calendar sheets may still be turned and the individual pages carrying any useful information preserved, without tearing any of the sheets from the calendar and without covering up any portion of the card 10 which it is desired to leave uncovered.

This represents a distinct advance over prior elements which have necessitated either the tearing of the calendar sheets from the calendar pad or the covering up of the advertising matter on the card to which the calendar pad is attached; or which, in the alternative, have necessitated the mounting of the sheets on a loose hanger so that the calendar sheets may be detached from the card or hanger, the page thereof suitably turned, and then the pad placed once more on the hanger.

In Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, I have shown a form which serves to center the end of the calendar pad 30 in the base of the slot and thus makes the pages of the calendar pad hang evenly on either side of the card. The card 10 of Figures l and 2 is provided with a cut-out at 1 l the upper surface of which cut out forms the upper surface of the slot 12 in the finished card. v

An additional strip 13 is provided having a bend line 14 and having cut-outs 15, 15 which cooperate with the cut out ll of the card 10 to form a slot 12, when the strip 13 is mounted in place.

The fold line 14 of the strip 13 is placed adjacent the bottom end of the card and the two sections on either side of the fold line are then secured, preferably by adhesive, to the opposite surfaces of the card H1, thus completing the slot in the manner shown. Before the strip 13 is secured in place, the end 16 of the calendar pad may be placed adjacent the fold line 14 and adhesively secured between the two folded up sections of the strip 13, and then the remaining portions of the strip 13 may in the manner pre viously described, be secured to the card 10.

In this construction the end 16 of the calendar pad is located along the center of the strip so that the pages may fall evenly on eitherside of the sheet when they are drawn through the slots.

In Figures 4 to 6 inclusive, I have shown a modification of the construction of Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, where the slot previously described is used in the same way in connection with a calendar pad but where additional framing means are provided for any photographs, pictures or advertisements which may be desired on the card, said framing means providing a frame for subject matter on each side of the card.

In Figures 5 and 6 I have shown a card 80 having a plurality of laminations, each of which is cut out at 8| so that a photograph, a picture or any other suitable advertising matter which is slightly larger than the cut-out 8| may be placed between the laminations and framed thereby. The card 80 in this case may preferably be formed from the integral blank of Figure 4 which comprises sections 83 and 84 which are hingedly connected to each other along the fold line 85 which forms the top of the card.

Perforations 8B, 8B in the sections 83 and 84 register with each other when the card is folded up to form the mounting means therefor. Cutouts 8|, 8| also register with each other for purposes previously described. A slot 81 is provided in lamination 84; cut-out 88 in lamination 83 registers with the upper portion of slot 81 and helps to define and reinforce the slot 81; lamination 84 is separated by fold line 89 from the extension 90. The fold line 89, when the card is folded about the fold line 85, registers with the edges 9! of the section 83 and xtension 90 is. then folded up so that cut-out 92 therein registers with the bottom of the slot 81, thus completing the slot and the card.

Before the card is folded up in the manner thus described suitable pictures, photographs or advertising matter may be secured to the sections 83 and 84 of the card so that they register with the cut outs 8i and so that the same will be framed thereby in the completed card.

Also, before the card is folded up and secured in position, the end 94 of the pad 30 is placed adjacent the fold line 89 and the extension is folded up sufficiently to secure the said pad in place. The folding and securing operation is then completed and the card is ready to hang upon a wall.

Here again, the manner of securing the pad in the card is such that the end of the pad extends along the center of the card rather than on one side thereof and thus the pages of the pad may hang evenly on either side of the card.

In the foregoing I have described my invention and a series of embodiments, all of which have in common the placement of the slot in the bottom of the card adjacent the binding means which secures the pad to the card and which permits selected pages of the pad to be drawn through the slot in order to selectively displace either side of the page while at the same time exposing the entire card to view.

Various means have been illustrated which effectively serve to accomplish this result. Many other modifications will, however, be obvious to those skilled in the art, and I prefer not to be bound by the specific disclosures herein, but only by the appended claim.

I claim.

As an article of manufacture, a calendar having a support card, means at the upper end of said support card for suspending the same, and a slot near the lower end of said support card; a calendar pad secured to the portion of the support card beneath the slot, the free ends of the pages of said calendar being movable through said slot, the means for securing said pad to said card comprising an adhesive strip bendable over the lower edge of said card and securable in surface-to-surface relation with each surface of said card, said adhesive strip engaging the bound end of the pad, said adhesive strip being also formed to define the slot at the lower end of said card.

MALVIN LIGHTER. 

